I have a personal interest in the attitude to illegitimate people and to those who gave birth to illegitimate children in Ireland in the late 19th century and early 20th century and I am looking for publications on this subject in this area.

... may exercise Mr Mitchell. His presentation of Carson as persecutor of another Irishman may constitute deliberate “poisoning of the well”; later an “associative fallacy” implies that somehow Carson was engaged in the Crown’s prosecution of Casement. Indeed every well from which any of ...